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Little House of Propaganda: Homesteading Myths and the Sentimentality of Self-Reliance

Little House of Propaganda: Homesteading Myths and the Sentimentality of Self-Reliance

Alissa Quart on the Bootstrap Narratives of Laura Ingalls Wilder

By Alissa Quart | March 20, 2023

“Gray Area is What Novels Can Do That Twitter Cannot.” Rebecca Makkai on Incorporating #MeToo in Her New Novel

“Gray Area is What Novels Can Do That Twitter Cannot.” Rebecca Makkai on Incorporating #MeToo in Her New Novel

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | March 20, 2023

Elisabeth B. Armstrong on the Most Consequential Anti-Colonial Feminist Conference You’ve Never Heard Of

Elisabeth B. Armstrong on the Most Consequential Anti-Colonial Feminist Conference You’ve Never Heard Of

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 20, 2023

Peter Wehner on Vengeance, Forbearance, and Healing in Trump’s America

Peter Wehner on Vengeance, Forbearance, and Healing in Trump’s America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 20, 2023

What Survivors of Trauma Demand From Their Abusers—and the Public At Large

What Survivors of Trauma Demand From Their Abusers—and the Public At Large

Judith L. Herman on Collective Acknowledgement in the Aftermath of Sexual Violence

By Judith L. Herman | March 17, 2023

Inside COVID-19’s Ground Zero: How China Transformed Into an Open-Air Prison

Inside COVID-19’s Ground Zero: How China Transformed Into an Open-Air Prison

Murong Xuecun on the Dangerous Intersection of Deceit, Technology, and Totalitarianism

By Murong Xuecun | March 17, 2023

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Neil Gross on Three Police Chiefs Who Defied the Odds and Changed American Cop Culture

By Keen On | March 17, 2023

20 Years After the Invasion: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on Iraqi Perspectives on the War and What Western Media Missed

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 16, 2023

Christopher Hobson on How Everything Everywhere—the US, the UK, Iraq, South Africa—is Broken

By Keen On | March 16, 2023

Kristen Loesch on Fictionalizing and Feminizing the History of 20th-Century Russia

Kristen Loesch on Fictionalizing and Feminizing the History of 20th-Century Russia

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 16, 2023

The FBI is spying on a Chicago bookstore because it’s hosting “extremists.”

The FBI is spying on a Chicago bookstore because it’s hosting “extremists.”

By Jonny Diamond | March 15, 2023

First they came for drag storytime… Then they came for James Patterson?

First they came for drag storytime… Then they came for James Patterson?

By Jonny Diamond | March 15, 2023

Skeletons in the Closet: On <em>Mad Men</em> and White America’s Willful Amnesia

Skeletons in the Closet: On Mad Men and White America’s Willful Amnesia

“Only by wading into the past did I begin to envision a different kind of future, one where I could imagine myself a mother.”

By Kelly Shetron | March 15, 2023

Alissa Quart on Why We Need to Liberate Ourselves From the “American Dream”

Alissa Quart on Why We Need to Liberate Ourselves From the “American Dream”

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 15, 2023

Mary Jo McConahay on Why American Catholic Bishops Are a Threat to Democracy

Mary Jo McConahay on Why American Catholic Bishops Are a Threat to Democracy

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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A Legacy of Brutality and Corruption: Life in the New Iraq

A Legacy of Brutality and Corruption: Life in the New Iraq

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on the High Costs of Post-Saddam Iraq

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